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Miss February

Sweet sixteen times two!

About Me

I'm a ratings machine.

My Interests

Comedy, screenwriting, strong coffee, borderline tachycardia, spaniels, theatre, self-sabotage, pirate comic fiction, Italy, England, Seattle, autumn, creature comforts, Danny Huston, porches, snowfall, Jonesy's Jukebox, blue states, limbic states, The Humpty Dance, sloths, owls, swearing, French presses, lotions, potions, all things pumpkin.

I'd like to meet:

All you Klingons in the fuckin' house.

Music:

Emma Gibbs Band, Jump Little Children, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, Nick Cave, Devotchka, Bryan Ferry, Morphine, Flaming Lips, Police, Simon & Garfunkel, Deep Purple, Leonard Cohen, Trespassers William, Blind Faith, Traffic, Annie Mosher, James Taylor, Led Zep, Over the Rhine, Jenny Lewis, Silversun Pickups, The Cult, King's X, Thin Lizzy, Cash, Beatles, Dylan.

Movies:

Current favorite: The Proposition. Perennial favorites: Animal House, Spinal Tap, Antonia's Line, A Christmas Story, Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma, Platoon, Ed Wood, Oldboy, Freaks, Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet, Lola Rennt, Primer, Heathers, Raising Arizona, Very Bad Things, Half Nelson, Tsotsi, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, Children of Men.

Television:

She's the Sheriff.

Books:

"Giraffes? Giraffes!" by Dr. and Mr. Doris Haggis-on-Whey.

Heroes:

None for me, thanks. I'm gluten intolerant.

My Blog

Birfday Story

Well, it's that February 6 time of year again, and no matter where I spend my birthday, or who I spend it with, I can always count on two things: a thoughtful (and damn-near patented) Happy Package fr...
Posted by Chancey on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:08:00 PST

I realize this makes me a fourteen-year-old boy.

"Anchorman" came on network tv tonight. I had nothing better to do, so I sat through it, and damned if I haven't laughed so hard since we invaded Iraq. Funniest thing was, I thought to myself the ot...
Posted by Chancey on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 01:27:00 PST

Taste the Pain!

So here we are in the thick, golden muck of awards' season, and this year it hearkens me back to my years as an actor. Most of you may not be aware, but I'm a theatre kid. I started studying acting ...
Posted by Chancey on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:42:00 PST

Top Ten Reasons Why I Hate Trader Joe's

10. Nobody ever trades me a half-eaten rice cake for the Flourless Sprouted 7-grain bread.9. Never met anybody named Joe there.8. All the customers there are hotter than me.7. All the customers th...
Posted by Chancey on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 05:23:00 PST

"Chillins of Men," or, "Homeland Insecurity."

Just saw "Children of Men" today. Not the type of picture I normally see. Can't remember the last time I took in a shoot-em-up (The Proposition, I suppose), a big budget movie, or even a loud one. ...
Posted by Chancey on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 07:15:00 PST

All you gotta do is dream.

So, for me, Friday night dreams are often stranger and more mysterious than usual, because I'm so pooped by week's end. Here's a synopsis of last night's dream, for all you amateur analysts and "My N...
Posted by Chancey on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 11:48:00 PST

We Wish You a Trippy Christmas

The 2004 CGI nightmarescape, "The Polar Express," came on last night. I remember being a fan of a few Chris Van Allsburg books around the time I was working extensively with kids (when you read lots ...
Posted by Chancey on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 11:12:00 PST

Yay Buckeyes!

Yay!
Posted by Chancey on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 08:11:00 PST

Heh. Mr. Coulter.

Daou Report by Peter Daou Message to Coulter, Hannity, Limbaugh, and O'Reilly: Time for a big ol' cup of 'shut the F up' - Courtesy of Bob Cesca at HuffPo: "Now that the Democrats have taken ...
Posted by Chancey on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 11:56:00 PST

"Little Chillins"

"Little Children."  Just shy of wonderful.  But that's Todd Field for you.  A little precious and self-congratulatory.  A little touch of the "Look at Me and Listen to All My Unnec...
Posted by Chancey on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 05:36:00 PST